溫馨夜讀II PART3 11.What Courage Looks Like?

[00:00.30]11.What Courage Looks Like? [00:04.44]I know what courage looks like. I saw it on a flight I took six years ago. [00:09.11]Minutes after we were airborne, our plane began dipping wildly and one wing lunged downward. [00:15.97]The pilot soon made a grave announcement. [00:19.46]“We are having some difficulties,” he said, “we are not sure our landing gear will lock, so the flight attendants will prepare you for a bumpy landing.” [00:29.37]In other words, we were about to crash. [00:33.18]As I looked at the faces of my fellow travelers, I was stunned by the changes I saw in their faces. [00:39.71]Everyone lost composure in one way or another. [00:43.31]I began searching the crowd for one person who felt the peace and calm that true courage or great faith gives people in these events. [00:52.02]I saw no one. Then a couple of rows to my left, I heard a still calm voice, a woman’s voice, speaking in an absolutely normal conversational tone. [01:07.04]There was no tremor or tension. I had to find the source of this voice. [01:13.80]All around, people cried and finally I saw her. [01:18.15]In the midst of all the chaos, a mother was talking to her child. [01:22.95]The woman was staring full into the face of her daughter, who looked to be four years old. [01:28.18]The child listened closely. [01:30.57]The mother’s gaze held the child so fixed and intent that she seemed untouched by the sounds of grief and fear around her. [01:38.95]A picture flashed into my mind of another little girl who had recently survived a terrible plane crash. [01:46.25]Speculation had it that she had lived because her mother had strapped her own body over the little girl’s in order to protect her. [01:54.31]I strained to hear what this mother was telling her child. [01:58.88]Over and over again, the mother said, “I love you so much. Do you know for sure that I love you more than anything?” [02:08.14]“Yes, Mommy,” the little girl said. [02:10.85]“And remember, no matter what happens, that I love you always.” [02:16.08]Then the mother put her body over her daughter’s, strapped the seat belt over both of them and prepared to crash. [02:23.39]For no earthly reason, our landing gear held and our touchdown was not the tragedy it seemed destined to be. [02:31.90]The voice I heard that day maintained an evenness that seemed emotionally and physically impossible. [02:37.15]Only the greatest courage, surrounded by even greater love, could have lifted her above the chaos around her. [02:44.81]That mom showed me what a real hero looks like. [02:48.63]And for those few minutes, I heard the voice of courage.

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